Second Pakistani Terrorist Caught Alive After Encounter in North Kashmir

Mangalore Today News Network

J & K, Baramulla, Aug 27:  A second Pakistani terrorist was caught in Jammu and Kashmir today, less than a month after the capture of Mohammad Naveed, who has given Indian investigators vital information.

The terrorist has been identified as 22-year-old Javed Ahmed from Muzaffargarh in Pakistan, also known as Sajjad and Abu Ubedullah. Four of his companions have been killed in a 20-hour long encounter in Baramulla in North Kashmir.

 

 

"The arrest of yet another Pakistani terrorist strengthens our position. There remains little doubt about Pakistani involvement in propping up terror," said Union Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju.

Javed allegedly entered India with his four companions through the Uri town. The group was intercepted in Uri, but they managed to escape. They were spotted again last evening, hiding in a cave in the Rafiabad area around 18 km from the Line of Control and 70 km from Srinagar.

One terrorist was killed yesterday and three more were shot dead in the daylong encounter. Javed was forced out of hiding when chilly grenades were used, says the Press Trust of India.

The terrorist has been taken to an interrogation centre in Srinagar.

This is the second capture in less than a month after Naveed was caught by villagers on August 5, following an attack on a paramilitary convoy in Udhampur.

Naveed, who was in the Kashmir Valley for nearly two months before the attack, has revealed crucial details to investigators, including that he was trained in camps run by the terror group Lashkar e-Taiba in Pakistan. Naveed revealed that he trained for three months to carry out attacks in India.

India had planned to raise recent terror attacks - in Udhampur and Punjab’s Gurdaspur - and the revelations of Naveed in a meeting with Pakistan’s National Security Advisors scheduled for Monday; the meeting was canceled at the eleventh hour amid sharp disagreements. Islamabad has disowned Naveed, who had said just after his capture that he belonged to Faisalabad in Pakistan